Please join the CLIMA Fund (a collaboration among Global Greengrants, Grassroots International, Thousand Currents, and the Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Rights) for this dialogue series with grassroots movements responding to the climate crisis.
April - August 2020, 2hr calls 9am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT
The world is changing rapidly due to climate disruption, and that's not going to stop. But the direction and impact for those changes is still up for grabs. What role does philanthropy play in supporting action towards justice, collective health, and sustainability? In this five-part dialogue series, the CLIMA Fund and guest speakers from grassroots movements around the globe will connect the dots across our global ecological and social crises, and how grassroots solutions are growing to meet the challenge. Each two hour session will include presentation, dialogue, and breakouts that build on each other over the five online sessions.
In philanthropy, ‘grassroots’ is often equated with ‘community’ and with ‘small-scale’. Grassroots solutions do come from community, but they are not often small. Because grassroots solutions come from the people most impacted by the problem they seek to solve, they can spread rapidly across geography and communities to have impact. The global youth uprisings are case in point. We will unpack the many different forms of grassroots action, and hear directly from frontline voices globally on the inroads for - and the hurdles facing - grassroots movements.
Participants will walk away from the series, with tailored programming based on your location in philanthropy, with a deeper understanding of how global climate justice movements are advancing change, and how they can practically take action in support. Institutional funders, individual donors, and philanthropic advisors encouraged to apply.
Dialogue themes:
Featured Speakers:
Angela Adrar (Climate Justice Alliance), Alejandro Argumedo (Swift Foundation), Nmimmo Bassey (Home of Mother Earth Foundation), Crystal Hayling (Libra Foundation), Chung-Wha Hong (Grassroots International), Kate Kroeger (Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights), Solomé Lemma (Thousand Currents), Sonja Swift (Swift Foundation), Cindy Wiesner (Grassroots Global Justice Alliance), TBD (La Jornada se Acabaron las Promesas), TBD (Indigenous Environmental Network), TBD (La Via Campesina)
Co-Sponsors:
Environmental Grantmakers Association, Confluence Philanthropy, Justice Funders, EDGE Funders Alliance, Human Rights Funders Network, Solidaire Network, New York Environmental Funders Network, and the Environmental Funders Network
Registration closes April 15.
Sliding Scale:
04/01/20
Please join the CLIMA Fund (a collaboration among Global Greengrants, Grassroots International, Thousand Currents, and the Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Rights) for this dialogue series with grassroots movements responding to the climate crisis.
April - August 2020, 2hr calls 9am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT
The world is changing rapidly due to climate disruption, and that's not going to stop. But the direction and impact for those changes is still up for grabs. What role does philanthropy play in supporting action towards justice, collective health, and sustainability? In this five-part dialogue series, the CLIMA Fund and guest speakers from grassroots movements around the globe will connect the dots across our global ecological and social crises, and how grassroots solutions are growing to meet the challenge. Each two hour session will include presentation, dialogue, and breakouts that build on each other over the five online sessions.
In philanthropy, ‘grassroots’ is often equated with ‘community’ and with ‘small-scale’. Grassroots solutions do come from community, but they are not often small. Because grassroots solutions come from the people most impacted by the problem they seek to solve, they can spread rapidly across geography and communities to have impact. The global youth uprisings are case in point. We will unpack the many different forms of grassroots action, and hear directly from frontline voices globally on the inroads for - and the hurdles facing - grassroots movements.
Participants will walk away from the series, with tailored programming based on your location in philanthropy, with a deeper understanding of how global climate justice movements are advancing change, and how they can practically take action in support. Institutional funders, individual donors, and philanthropic advisors encouraged to apply.
Dialogue themes:
Featured Speakers:
Angela Adrar (Climate Justice Alliance), Alejandro Argumedo (Swift Foundation), Nmimmo Bassey (Home of Mother Earth Foundation), Crystal Hayling (Libra Foundation), Chung-Wha Hong (Grassroots International), Kate Kroeger (Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights), Solomé Lemma (Thousand Currents), Sonja Swift (Swift Foundation), Cindy Wiesner (Grassroots Global Justice Alliance), TBD (La Jornada se Acabaron las Promesas), TBD (Indigenous Environmental Network), TBD (La Via Campesina)
Co-Sponsors:
Environmental Grantmakers Association, Confluence Philanthropy, Justice Funders, EDGE Funders Alliance, Human Rights Funders Network, Solidaire Network, New York Environmental Funders Network, and the Environmental Funders Network
Registration closes April 15.
Sliding Scale: